Huron

The Huron-Wyandot were a tribe of Native Americans that inhabited the American Midwest and southern Canada. Close partners with France in both the fur trade and their wars with Great Britain, they later fought alongside Great Britain to save their lands from the United States in the 1770s. The tribe was arch-enemies with the Iroquois Confederacy for all of its existence, and they were eventually moved to the Midwest by the Americans.

History
The name "Huron" means "rustic" or "ruffian" in French, and "Ouendat" (Wyandot) means "Islanders" in the Iroquoian language. Inhabiting the lands of present-day Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin in the United States and the Great Lakes regions of Canada, the Huron-Wyandot tribes were one of the first tribes that French explorer Samuel de Champlain made contact with. They allied with the Kingdom of France and traded furs and guns with them, and they aided them during the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763. The Huron assisted the French on the frontier in ambushes against British and colonial forces who sought to expand into the Ohio Valley. Although the French and Huron lost the war, the British issued the Proclamation of 1763, which guaranteed that Huron lands would not be interrupted. However, they had a traditional rivalry with the nearby Iroquois Confederacy, and they fought them in tribal warfare for decades. During the American Revolutionary War they fought against the Americans alongside the British in order to defend their lands from the encroaching colonists. Again, they lost the war, but their lands remained unchanged. In the 1780s they continued their war with the Iroquois and they captured the village of Fallen Timbers from the Iroquois in 1783.